Jennifer Morinigo, Elizabeth S. Scott, Richard Bonnie, Emily Buss, Clare Huntington, Solangel Maldonado and David D. Meyer | October 5, 2018 | Children and the Law
This week, project participants for ALI’s Children and the Law Restatement gather in Philadelphia to discuss Preliminary Draft No. 5, which includes three Sections from Part III. Children in the Justice System: 15.60. Use of Delinquency Finding as a Predicate for...
Jennifer Morinigo, Elizabeth S. Scott, Richard Bonnie, Emily Buss, Clare Huntington and Solangel Maldonado | May 1, 2018 | Children and the Law
Part III of the Children and the Law project deals with juvenile justice doctrine. In this area, modern courts increasingly have focused on differences between juvenile and adult offenders, often invoking research on adolescent development to guide legal...
Elizabeth S. Scott, Richard Bonnie, Emily Buss, Clare Huntington, Solangel Maldonado, David D. Meyer and Jennifer Morinigo | April 20, 2018 | Children and the Law
Two Sections from the 2018 Annual Meeting draft deal with this topic. Black letter for each Section is included below. The full draft contains Comments (with Illustrations) and Reporters’ Notes. Section 2.30, on parental authority and responsibility for medical care,...
Clare Huntington | November 3, 2017 | Children and the Law
Early childhood development is a robust and vibrant focus of study in multiple disciplines, from economics and education to psychology and neuroscience. Abundant research from these disciplines has established that early childhood is critical for the development of...
Emily Buss, Solangel Maldonado and Clare Huntington | August 25, 2017 | Children and the Law
Project Reporters Emily Buss, Solangel Maldonado, and Clare Huntington discuss issues of pluralism in the Children and the Law Restatement in the video below. One of the things about working and writing in the area of children’s law, everybody, whether it has...